An early win for Clinton: Transit strike ends in Philly

A strike that paralyzed public transportation in Philadelphia for a week ended Monday when the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and a union representing almost 5,000 employees announced a deal on the eve of Election Day.

 

"Tentative agreement reached. We are off strike, " TWU Local 234 announced on its website.

The deal was struck hours after the transit agency announced it was seeking a court injunction to force its employees back to work. SEPTA said any disruption of public transit would inhibit city residents from voting in Tuesday's elections.

SEPTA workers walked out after midnight Nov. 1 over issues including pension benefits and the amount of time off given to drivers between shifts. The strike idled subways, buses and trolleys that provide almost 1 million rides each weekday.

Septa said on its website that a deal was reached and that "limited bus, trolley and subway service will resume later today." SEPTA said service was expected to be fully restored Tuesday.

Philadelphia is the nation's fifth-largest city, and many of its 1.5 million residents don't own cars. Any issue that might disrupt voter turnout Tuesday would be problematic for Mayor Jim Kenney and other Democratic leaders of this overwhelmingly Democratic city that is expected to provide big numbers for Hillary Clinton's presidential bid. Pennsylvania is considered a swing state, and Republican hopeful Donald Trump has worked hard to claim its 20 electoral votes..............................................Read more

An early win for Clinton: Transit strike ends in Philly The six-day strike idled subways, buses and trolleys that provide almost 1 million rides each weekday.

Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve as U.S. Attorney General, Dies at 78

Janet Reno, who rose from a rustic life on the edge of the Everglades to become attorney general of the United States — the first woman to hold the job — and whose eight years in that office placed her in the middle of some of the most divisive episodes of the Clinton presidency, died on Monday at her home in Miami-Dade County, Fla. She was 78.

Her sister, Margaret Hurchalla, said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease, which was diagnosed in November 1995, while she was still in office.

Ms. Reno's tenure as attorney general was bracketed by two explosive events: a deadly federal raid on the compound of a religious cult in Waco, Tex., in 1993, and, in 2000, the government's seizing of Elián González, a young Cuban refugee who was at the center of an international custody battle and a political tug of war.

In those moments and in others Ms. Reno was applauded for displaying integrity and a willingness to accept responsibility, but she was also fiercely criticized. Republicans accused her of protecting President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore when, in 1997, she refused to allow an independent counsel to investigate allegations of fund-raising improprieties in the White House.

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Missing nuclear weapon since 1950 'may have been found'

Mr Smyrichinsky says he came upon the device while diving off the coast of Pitt Island near Haida Gwaii in early October, which is near the Alaskan border with British Columbia. It was "bigger than a king-size bed", perfectly flat on top with a rounded bottom and had a hole in the centre just "like a bagel," he told the BBC.

"I found something really weird, I think it's a UFO," he joked with his fellow divers once he came to shore. The area is remote, and Mr Smyrichinsky says he had to wait a few days before he could go into town and find somebody who might know what it is.

One of his friends, an "old-timer" from the area, had an idea: "Maybe you found that nuke they lost here in the 50s!"..........Read more

Nuclear weapon missing since 1950 'may have been found' - BBC News A diver off the west coast of Canada may have found a US nuclear weapon missing since 1950.